cve-2015-4170
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-05-02 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 06:04
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
0.06% (0.19028)
Summary
Race condition in the ldsem_cmpxchg function in drivers/tty/tty_ldsem.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13-rc4-next-20131218 allows local users to cause a denial of service (ldsem_down_read and ldsem_down_write deadlock) by establishing a new tty thread during shutdown of a previous tty thread.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cf872776fc84128bb779ce2b83a37c884c3203aeVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/26/1
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74820
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1395Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218879Issue Tracking, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cf872776fc84128bb779ce2b83a37c884c3203ae
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/next/patch-v3.13-rc4-next-20131218.xzPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cf872776fc84128bb779ce2b83a37c884c3203aeVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/26/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74820
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1395Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1218879Issue Tracking, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cf872776fc84128bb779ce2b83a37c884c3203ae
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/next/patch-v3.13-rc4-next-20131218.xzPatch
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